Anke Goerzig

• PhD (Dr. rer. soc.), MSc (Diplom, Psychology)
• Associate Professor at University of Greenwich

Bystanders’ responses play an important role in cyberaggression incidents among youth. This study examines factors differentiating cyberbystander roles as defenders or outsiders. Individual factors (gender, age, self-efficacy, and digital skills), social factors (parent, teacher, and peer mediation), contextual factors (victim’s age relative to the...

Teachers play a crucial role in addressing school bullying, yet many factors can affect their approaches. Identity-based social exclusion, where children are excluded by peers due to their stigmatised identities, is a distinct form of lower bullying rates associated with more detrimental outcomes. The social inequalities and power imbalances reflec...

For young people with emotional problems internet usage can provide coping strategies. These can be maladaptive (e.g., excessive internet use) or adaptive (e.g., engagement in social online activities). We investigated the relationships of emotional problems with maladaptive and adaptive coping strategies online and explored whether a preference fo...

For young people with emotional problems internet usage can provide coping strategies. These can be maladaptive (e.g., excessive internet use) or adaptive (e.g., engagement in social online activities). We investigated the relationships of emotional problems with maladaptive and adaptive coping strategies online and explored whether a preference fo...

Bias-based bullying (i.e., bullying due to marginalized identities) is a significant and ongoing challenge within contemporary educational settings. Teachers are crucial in mitigating such harmful behaviors and cultivating positive peer relationships. The present study explores teachers’ perceptions of and intervention intentions in bias-based bull...

Introduction Dysphagia affects up to 70% of care home residents, increasing morbidity and hospital admissions. Speech and language therapists make recommendations to support safe nutrition but have limited capacity to offer ongoing guidance. This study aimed to understand if recommendations made to support safe and effective care are implemented an...

For young people with emotional problems internet usage can provide coping strategies. These can be maladaptive (e.g., excessive internet use) or adaptive (e.g., engagement in social online activities). We investigated the relationships of emotional problems with maladaptive and adaptive coping strategies online and explored whether a preference fo...

Authors: Anke Görzig, Claire Monks, Rachel Maunder, Leyla DeAmicis, Lucy Betts, Samuel Bennett Presentation title Teachers’ responses to identity-based social exclusion: Social inequality, identity and diversity at teacher and school level Background Social exclusion is a type of bullying that has detrimental outcomes on young people’s emotional...

free access - Nov 20th: https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1hraj4r2g0v4Er School victimisation and perpetration rates change in frequency with age. However, findings vary by study, gender, and type of bullying, especially offline and online. We provide a comprehensive analysis of age trends by analysing data from 3 large-scale surveys: Health Behaviou...

Introduction Dysphagia affects up to 70% of nursing home residents, causes significant morbidity and increased hospital admissions. Speech and language therapists (SLT) make recommendations to reduce the risk of aspiration and support safe eating and drinking but have limited capacity to offer ongoing guidance to care home staff. This study aimed t...

To curb COVID-19 infections, the British government enforced a series of lockdowns resulting in restrictions on movement and socialisation. This study assessed which groups may have been at higher risk of emotional distress among a non-clinical sample of British adults. It also examined which coping strategies, if any, related to more positive psyc...

Background: In line with Williams’ need threat model, previous research has shown that social media ostracism impacted on psychological needs in university students. The present research expands on this paradigm by investigating whether a) students who are particularly vulnerable due to belonging to a discriminated against group are similarly affe...

Based on an impressive in-depth survey of 25,000 children carried out by the EU Kids Online network, this timely book examines the prospect for young internet users of enhanced opportunities for learning, creativity and communication set against the fear of cyberbullying, pornography and invaded privacy.

Mental illness (MI) stigma has been characterized as multi‐dimensional including problems of knowledge (stereotypes), attitudes (prejudice) and behavior (discrimination); however, most research practice is predominantly applying unidimensional behavioral measures such as social distance scales. Moreover, specific types of MIs and different forms of...

In response to the COVID‐19 outbreak, the British government introduced a lockdown resulting in country wide restrictions on movement and socialisation. This research sought to explore individuals’ experience of the first lockdown in the UK. A qualitative online survey was conducted between April and June 2020. Using a convenience sample, 29 indivi...

There is some indication that discrimination as well as low levels of life satisfaction render young people at risk of cyberhate victimization. Adopting a socio-ecological perspective, this paper examines whether supportive family, peer and school environments may buffer against the effects of perceived discrimination and low life satisfaction on c...

There is some indication that discrimination as well as low levels of life satisfaction render young people at risk of cyberhate victimization. Adopting a socio-ecological perspective, this paper examines whether supportive family, peer and school environments may buffer against the effects of perceived discrimination and low life satisfaction on c...

Bullying has been mostly studied in Western countries; however, research in other parts of the world has been catching up in recent years. The phenomenon of bullying is present worldwide as demonstrated by cross-national surveys. In this paper, we review the cultural aspects of bullying mainly reflected as cross-national differences in the research...

Bullying has been mostly studied in Western countries; however, research in other parts of the world has been catching up in recent years (Sittichai & Smith, 2015; Smith, Kwak, & Toda, 2016a; Zych, Ortega-Ruiz, & Del Rey, 2015). The phenomenon of bullying is pres-ent worldwide as demonstrated by cross-national surveys (e.g., Craig et al., 2009; Lia...

Little attention has been given academically to empirically tested theoretical frameworks that aim to measure the risk of adolescents falling victim to cybergrooming. To this end, we have applied the Routine Activity Theory to investigate whether exposure to motivated offenders (PC/laptop ownership and Internet access in one’s own bedroom), capable...

Little attention has been given academically to empirically tested theoretical frameworks that aim at measuring the risk of adolescents falling victim to cybergrooming. To this end, we have applied the routine activity theory (RAT) to investigate whether exposure to motivated offenders (PC/laptop ownership and Internet access in one's own bedroom),...

Children are using the internet and digital technologies at younger and younger ages, with an emerging trend of very young children (babies, toddlers, and preschoolers) using internet-connected devices, especially touch screen tablets. In addition to this, primary-school-aged children are going online in increasing numbers and with increasing frequ...

We applied the Social Cognitive Theory to investigate whether the parent-child relationships, bullying victimization, and teacher-student relationships are directly as well as indirectly via self-efficacy in social conflicts associated with adolescents’ willingness to intervene in a bullying incident. There were 2,071 (51.3% male) adolescents betwe...

It was investigated whether different types of mental or developmental disorders (MDD) would be rated differently in terms of stereotypic perceptions and behavioral tendencies and whether these effects of stereotypes on behaviors would be mediated via emotional responses in line with the stereotype content model (SCM). Furthermore, an experimental...

Cyberhate exposure can have serious negative impacts on adolescents' development. However, there has been scarce research on adolescents' coping strategies for cyberhate. Deepening the knowledge of how adolescents deal with cyberhate might help researchers, teachers, and parents find a way to alleviate negative effects of cyberhate on adolescents....

Research has shown for decades that regardless of culture, country, analytical and statistical methods both perpetration and victimization are highly associated. However, less attention has been given to the possible associations between cyberhate victimization and perpetration. In agreement with the Social Learning Theory, cyberhate victims may be...

Many studies have reported on gender differences in bully and victim rates, but with the majority of reports from a small number of countries. Here we report on such gender differences from five large cross-national data bases. We report on overall male:female (M:F) ratios, and variations in these by age (or grade), by survey time point, and by off...

Abstract The phenomenon of cyberbullying is gaining ever more attention by media and policy makers in many countries. Theoretical frameworks using a socio-ecological approach emphasise the importance of contextual explanatory factors located at the societal level. It has been suggested that in addition to cross-national differences, the analysis of...

Possible links of cyberbullying with suicide and psychological problems have recently received considerable attention. Suicide-related behaviours have also been linked with viewing of associated web-content. Studies on traditional bullying indicate that the roles of bullying involvement (bullies, victims and bully-victims) matter in terms of associ...

In 2010, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) established a programme replacing the borough directorates responsible for adult mental health services with three Clinical Academic Groups (CAGs), each of which took on a subset of adult services straddling all four boroughs. Care pathways were also introduced. We studied the Mood Anxi...

Adolescence is a period of increased risk experience and ever more often these occur online. The current study aims to investigate whether adolescents' online and offline risk experiences are driven by the same general propensity to risks. Data from a representative study of N = 19,406 (50% girls) internet-using 11-16 year olds (M = 13.54, SD = 1.6...

Aims In 2010, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) entered a new academic health science centre. As part of this, the borough directorates that had previously managed the delivery of adult mental health services were abolished; instead, three Clinical Academic Groups (CAGs), including a Mood Anxiety and Personality CAG were establi...

Involvement in bullying has been shown to result from a complex interplay between individuals and their wider social environment. Consequently, an approach using Bronfenbrenner's classic socio-ecological theory as a starting point has been successfully applied in the research of bullying. The aim of the present paper was to apply this perspective i...

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Cyberbullying has been found to be associated with self-harm related behaviours and mental health difficulties. The current study aims to investigate adolescents’ viewing of web content related to self-harm and suicide as well as different kinds of mental health difficulties while differentiating between types of involvement in cyberbullying (bulli...

Background Establishing what constitutes clinically significant change is important both for reviewing the function of services and for reflecting on individual clinical practice. A range of methods for assessing change exist, but it remains unclear which are best to use and under which circumstances.Method This paper reviews four indices of change...

Aim: Adolescence is a period of increased risk experience and ever more often these occur online. The current study aims to investigate whether adolescents’ online and offline risk experiences are driven by the same general propensity to risks. Method: Offline and online risk experiences (five each) of 18.709 11–16 year old Internet users in 25...

This article reports new findings on the incidence of risk and the associated experience of harm reported by children and adolescents aged 11–16, regarding receipt of sexual messages on the internet (known popularly as sexting). Findings showed that the main predictors of the risk of seeing or receiving sexual messages online are age (older), psych...

The performance levels of fundamental (i.e., operational and formal) and advanced (i.e., information and strategic) Internet skills and their potential predictors were assessed among a sample of Dutch primary school children. The findings suggest that primary school children possess sufficient levels of fundamental but not advanced Internet skills...

The EU Kids Online II project built on the previous project's literature review and development of methods to generate detailed cross-national evidence about children's use, risks and harms online. The project aimed to provide comparable survey data that permit the joint elaboration of social policies for Internet use and protection for young peopl...

School factors are associated with many health outcomes in adolescence. However, previous studies report inconsistent findings regarding the degree of school-level variation for health outcomes, particularly for risk behaviours. This study uses data from three large longitudinal studies in England to investigate school-level variation in a range of...

The current study examines the differences between those who have been cyberbullied online and on mobile devices (on-the-go) and those who have been cyberbullied online but not on mobile devices. Additionally, country differences in cyberbullying on-the-go are explored. Analyses were carried out employing a random stratified sample of 25,142 childr...

Estudios previos sobre menores adoptados han mostrado que los menores adoptados en Europa del Este (EE) tienen más probabilidades de mostrar inatención e hiperactividad/impulsividad mientras que las niñas adoptadas en China (CH) suelen obtener puntuaciones normales en adaptación, aunque a medida que crecen, puede que aumenten las conductas internal...

Previous research looking at adopted children has shown that children adopted from Eastern Europe (EE) are more likely to show inattention and hyperactivity/impulsivity whereas girls adopted from China (CH) tend to have normative adjustment scores, although as they grow up, internalising behaviours might increase. We directly compare parental ratin...

Overview Leading child protection researchers from around the world met in September 2012 for a workshop on the international epidemiology of violence against children held during the XIXth ISPCAN International Congress on Child Abuse and Neglect in Istanbul, Turkey. This workshop convened for the first time most of the leading global experts on th...

This chapter offers an overview of the dataset and describes the methodological approaches adopted for the EU Kids Online project surveying 1,000 children and one of their parents in each of the 25 participating countries. Approaches and procedures are reviewed in the context of the survey research literature and methods employed in cross-national...

This article reports new findings on the incidence of risk and the associated experience of harm reported by children and adolescents aged 11–16, regarding receipt of sexual messages on the internet (known popularly as sexting). Findings showed that the main predictors of the risk of seeing or receiving sexual messages online are age (older), psych...

This chapter draws together the findings reported earlier in the book to develop a general model of the determinants of children's risk and safety on the internet. The findings broadly support the working model outlined in Chapter 1. The chapter then offers a typology of young internet users, revealing the contextual links between internet use, opp...

This chapter analyses the increasing variety of internet access and use experienced by children in Europe. Locations, platforms, experience and the embeddedness of the internet in everyday life are accounted for in order to provide a full picture of the first and the most immediate socio-cultural layer in which children's agency is exercised. Insof...

A range of methodological challenges accompanies survey research, from specification of the research questions and associated measurements, to minimising coverage, sampling and response errors. Cross-national surveys need a balance to be struck between standardisation and use of culture-specific or appropriate techniques. In addition, all projects...

Introduction The vast array of risks and opportunities that confront children in their daily media practices cannot be analysed in isolation from the broader context in which these practices emerge and become meaningful. Previous research (Livingstone and Helsper, 2007, 2009) indicates that the patterns and social contexts of general internet use a...

Introduction Rapid adoption of the internet and other online technologies is presenting policy makers, governments and industry with a significant task of ensuring that online opportunities are maximised and the risks associated with internet use are minimised and managed. Online opportunities are the focus of considerable public and private sector...

Sexting’: a new cultural phenomenon? School boards are grappling with a vexing problem – how to curb proliferation of sexually explicit texts and photos sent between teens. (Toronto Sun, 24 March 2011) A dangerous “sexting” trend seems to be on the rise among minors after six teenagers were probed by police over explicit images sent over the web or...

As internet use is extending to younger children, there is an increasing need for research focusing on the risks young users are experiencing, as well as the opportunities, and how they should cope. With expert contributions from diverse disciplines and a uniquely cross-national breadth, this timely book examines the prospect of enhanced opportunit...

The characteristics of bullies who act face-to-face and those who do so in cyberspace were compared directly in one sample across twenty-five countries. The role of crosscountry differences in technological infrastructure was also explored. Cyberbullies compared to face-to-face bullies were more likely to engage in risky online activities, spend mo...

Adolescence has long been considered a period of increased risk behaviour. Moreover, research suggests that those engaging in one type of risk behaviour often additionally do so in others, i.e. engage in multiple risks. The current generation of adolescents are making ever more use of the Internet and are also referred to as the digital natives. Co...

This brief commentary article considers the implications of intensive outcome monitoring which is central to children and young people's Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (CYP IAPT) in England and Wales. Services are being provided with a range of free software solutions to enable data collection, and guidance on interpretation of the mea...

As internet use is extending to younger children, there is an increasing need for research focus on the risks young users are experiencing, as well as the opportunities, and how they should cope. With expert contributions from diverse disciplines and a uniquely cross-national breadth, this timely book examines the prospect of enhanced opportunities...

The characteristics of bullies who act face-to-face and those who do so in cyberspace were compared directly in one sample across twenty-five countries. The role of cross-country differences in technological infrastructure was also explored. Cyberbullies compared to face-to-face bullies were more likely to engage in risky online activities, spend m...

Summary 93% of 9-16 year old internet users in Europe have neither bullied nor been bullied online. Those who have bullied or been bullied online are more vulnerable psychologically or from their socio-demographic background. Bullying, and having been bullied online mostly go hand in hand. Around 60% of those who bully have been bullied by ot...

2011) Patterns of risk and safety online: in-depth analyses from the EU Kids Online survey of 9-to 16-year-olds and their parents in 25 European countries. EU Kids Online network, London, UK.

A series of studies investigates the impact of regulatory fit on women’s leadership aspirations. A regulatory fit occurs when an outcome is presented in gain frames under a promotion focus and in loss frames under a prevention focus. Combining research on regulatory focus and research on stereotype threat it is argued that regulatory fit may result...